Coagulation Testing Quality

3rd Conference
April 14-17, 2009

1st Workshop
April 15-16, 2009

Minneapolis Marriott City Center Hotel
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Course Director

William L. Nichols, MD
Consultant, Laboratory Medicine and Hematology/Internal Medicine
Mayo Special Coagulation Laboratory and Coagulation Clinical Centers
Co-Director, Coagulation Education Programs
Director, Mayo International Hemophilia Training Center (WFH)
Associate Professor, Medicine and Laboratory Medicine*

Course Co-Directors

Rajiv K. Pruthi, MBBS
Consultant, Hematology/Internal Medicine and Laboratory Medicine
Mayo Special Coagulation Laboratory and Coagulation Clinical Centers
Co-Director, Mayo Special Coagulation DNA Diagnostic Laboratory
Co-Director, Coagulation Clinical and Laboratory Practice
Director, Mayo Comprehensive Hemophilia Center
Assistant Professor, Medicine*

Catherine P.M. Hayward, MD, PhD
President, North American Specialized Coagulation Laboratory Association
Head, Coagulation Laboratories
Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program
Professor, Pathology & Molecular Medicine, and Medicine
McMaster University Medical Centre
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Mayo Clinic Faculty

Layna K. Cardel, BS, MT(ASCP)
Education Specialist
Mayo Special Coagulation Laboratory
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Instructor, Laboratory Medicine*

Dong Chen, MD, PhD
Consultant, Mayo Hematopathology and Special Coagulation Laboratories
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Assistant Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology*

*College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic

Guest Faculty

Dorothy M. (Adcock) Funk, MD
Medical and Laboratory Director
Esoterix Coagulation
Aurora, Colorado

Wayne L. Chandler, MD
Director, Clinical Coagulation Laboratory
Professor and Vice-Chair
Department of Laboratory Medicine
University of Washington
Harborview Medical Center
Seattle, Washington

Marilyn A. Johnston, MLT, ART
Director
Hemostasis Reference Laboratory
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Steve Kitchen, PhD
Clinical Scientist
Sheffield Haemophilia and Thrombosis Center
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Sheffield, England

Marlies R. Ledford-Kraemer, MBA, BS, MT(ASCP) SH
President, CLOT-ED, Inc.
130 North Rolling Hill Road
Islamorada, Florida

Richard A. Marlar, PhD
Director, Coagulation Laboratory
Chief, Clinical Pathology
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Oklahoma Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Professor of Pathology
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Piet Meijer, PhD
Executive Director, ECAT Foundation
Leiden, Netherlands

Karen A. Moffat. MLT, ART, FCSMLS(D)
Technical Specialist, Coagulation
Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program
Lecturer, Department of Medicine
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

John D. Olson, MD, PhD
Director of Clinical Laboratories
Professor of Pathology and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs
Department of Pathology
University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, Texas

Ellinore I. Peerschke, PhD
Professor of Pathology
Associate Director for Clinical Laboratories
Chief, Division of Translational Research
Director, Coagulation and Microscopy Laboratories
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, New York

Elizabeth A. Plumhoff, MT(ASCP), CLS(NCA)
Executive Secretary, North American Specialized Coagulation Association
Scientific Director, Editorial Publications
Mayo Collaborative Services, Inc.
Rochester, Minnesota

F. Eric Preston, MD
Director, WHO/WFH EQA Scheme for Blood Coagulation
Professor, Medicine
Department of Haematology
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, England

Anne Raby, MLT, ART
Hematology Consultant Technologist
External Quality Assessment
Quality Management Program - Laboratory Services
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Georges E.  Rivard, MD
Clinical Professor
Pediatrics and Hematology
Director
Hemophilia Clinic and Clinical Coagulation Laboratory
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Elizabeth M. Van Cott, MD
Director, Coagulation Laboratory
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Bert Verbruggen, PhD
Haemostasis Laboratory
Central Haematology Laboratory
Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Center
Nijmegen, Netherlands

James G. White, MD
Regents Professor, Pediatrics, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota, School of Medicine
Minneapolis, Minnesota

James L. Zehnder, MD
Director, Coagulation and Molecular Genetic Pathology Laboratories
Professor, Pathology & Medicine (Hematology)
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California

Faculty Disclosure

As a provider accredited by ACCME, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic (Mayo School of CME) must ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in its educational activities. Course director(s), planning committee, faculty, and all others who are in a position to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest related to the subject matter of the educational activity. Safeguards against commercial bias have been put in place. Faculty also will disclose any off-label and/or investigational use of pharmaceuticals or instruments discussed in their presentation. Disclosure of this information will be published in course materials so that participants in the activity may formulate their own judgments regarding the presentation.